Ensemble Opificio Sonoro - Chamber MusicBorn in 1947, Salvatore Sciarrino has been delighting and perplexing his audiences, often at the same time, ever since the mid 60s, though his reputation has long since spread beyond European avant garde circles, particularly with the opera Luci miei tradici and it's stagings in Brussels, New York, Salzburg and Berlin. The basic premises of Sciarrino's language explore the limits of perception, the borderline between sound and silence, and the

features the original album plus 10 unreleased demos

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Böhm is really in his element with the Prague: the first movement is magnificent

Featuring several famous pieces from the original minimalist canon - including Philip Glass's Music in Contrary Motion and Terry Riley's Keyboard Studies - there are hours of beautifully relaxing and inspiring music here to enjoy

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The loss pushed the girls to write

Linköping and Grythyttan festivals

French/Swiss pianist Cedric Pescia has concertized throughout Europe

was Farinelli's singing teacher and mentor to the youthful Haydn

David Bowie - for him to listen to

Kasper Holten's production of Don Giovanni reveals the inner turmoil of the eponymous antihero

while album closer "I Won't Give Up" offers an Age of Obama anthem on how change comes from agitation from below